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Summary: Cut the Clutter, Stow the stuff
Review: I believe this book to be very helpful. IF you are not impaired in the ways of organization, then of course this book would have useless ideas for people who already know them. For those of us with this problem of not knowing how to organize, this book is great. It showed me how to organize space more efficiently, gave me a different outlook on how to use different rooms in my home and gave me some resources for what to buy for cabinets, closets and entryways. It is VERY helpful and full of all different advice in the way of organization. IT points out the psychological reasons we hoard things,,,,what type of clutter person you are and with that information helps you fight the habits that got you to the place where you needed to buy the book in the first place. Reading the other reviews, I believe them to unfairly put this book on a low level, seems maybe these people did not need the help to begin with??? It helps...it has major ideas and a lot of them in an easy to grasp format that is easy and pleasurable to read.
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Summary: Cut the Clutter, Stow the stuff
Review: I believe this book to be very helpful. IF you are not impaired in the ways of organization, then of course this book would have useless ideas for people who already know them. For those of us with this problem of not knowing how to organize, this book is great. It showed me how to organize space more efficiently, gave me a different outlook on how to use different rooms in my home and gave me some resources for what to buy for cabinets, closets and entryways. It is VERY helpful and full of all different advice in the way of organization. IT points out the psychological reasons we hoard things,,,,what type of clutter person you are and with that information helps you fight the habits that got you to the place where you needed to buy the book in the first place. Reading the other reviews, I believe them to unfairly put this book on a low level, seems maybe these people did not need the help to begin with??? It helps...it has major ideas and a lot of them in an easy to grasp format that is easy and pleasurable to read.
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Summary: cut the clutter don't buy this book
Review: I bought this book while I was living in America and have just gotten around to reading it.I wish I had not ,the pages are badly set out with to many side bars making it a pain to read .Also there is not enough good information in it to make it worth buying.A note to the editor if you produce this book for the British market you want to use another word than Tosser this is not a nice word over here and may offend some people.
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Summary: cut the clutter don't buy this book
Review: I thought this book was GREAT and a huge help in zeoring in on my cluttering problem. It helped me evaluate how I accumulate STUFF, and gave me the OK to re-evaluate, trash, donate, recycle, relocate and re-gift things that would probably be HERE forever. I also learned some great decorating and storage tips. It's been a fun trip to ordiliness! Thanks, Di
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Summary: Difficult to read, very cluttered style
Review: The QUICK system is: Quantify, Unload, Isolate, Contain, Keep It up. I read the first three chapters, and I got so frustrated, I could not finish it. Here are my gripes:--"Quantify" really means make an inventory. They spend a lot of time helping to motivate the reader to do it, but they never answer two very important questions: WHY? and HOW? Why should I make this list of my stuff? How will it be used later? How much stuff should I inventory--just the things I think are clutter, or everything? How detailed should it be--5 shirts or blue dress shirt, tee shirt, etc?
--"Unload" means get rid of it. OK, fine, but how to decide? Why couldn't I do that WHILE I was quantifying? The authors say "don't pitch things while you are quantifing," but not why?
--The book is written with magazine style side-bars on nearly every page. The pages are too busy and distracting. Some of them contribute to the main text (why not just include them?), but many don't (put them somewhere else!). In a nutshell, I'm very glad I borrowed this from the library so that it wouldn't add to the clutter of my home.
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Summary: TOO CLUTTERED!
Review: This book has too many no brainer solutions, and not enough real problem solving information. I love the beginning of the book with the note from the editor, she writes that this book sat on her desk, under a pile of clutter, for a while before she decided to sit down and read it--was it that bad!? The book itself needs the pages uncluttered, it was so hard to read and was poorly designed. The funniest part was when my husband came in our kitchen one day and saw this book sitting on top of a mountain of paper clutter. In summary if you just throw away or organize your stuff, you want be cluttered--easier said then done.
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